Re: solaris 10: address@hidden

[David Lee]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * David Lee wrote on Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 07:10:59PM CEST:
> > Quite a few folk seem to be having trouble linking on Solaris 10.
> >
> > These seem to be well-established applications, that have compiled and
> > linked for years on a wide range of OSes, including Solaris 8 and 9,
> > but something seems subtly different on Solaris 10: some interaction
> > amongst Solaris 10 libraries, GNU ld, libtool.  It is unclear whether this
> > is multiple "pilot error", of a fault in a single one of that list, or
> > some strange interaction.
>
> OK.  Let's find out.

Thanks for the reply.

The last bit of my message, and your reply to it, looks like the most 
fruitful avenue to explore at the present time:

> [...]
> Grab Libtool 1.5.18, post output of `configure' run, config.log, output
> of
>  make check VERBOSE=x
> (please bzip2 or gzip large attachments).
>
> Show how the packages that fail are built: post the relevant
> `libtool --mode=link' lines and what they output.  In case you are
> unsure what is relevant, post more so relevant stuff is included in any
> case.
>
> > (Incidentally: this may or may not be relevant to the above:  in my own
> > case, I know that our GNU ld and libtool are somewhat out-of-date.  So
> > I've attempted to get libtool 1.5.18 installed.  "make check" is fine on
> > S8, but has a failure in "mdemo2-make.test" on S10.  If someone can guide
> > me, I'd be happy to try to pursue this futher.)
>
> I bet this is related, it tests dlopening.
>
> Execute
>  make check VERBOSE=x TESTS='mdemo-conf.test mdemo-make.test mdemo2-conf.test 
> mdemo2-make.test mdemo2-exec.test'
> and post the output (This is a subset of the check above).
>
> Just FYI for the other Libtool developers: If Solaris 10 turns out to
> need a Libtool update, I can probably do one next weekend.  Blind
> guessing makes me believe it's a ld bug rather than a Libtool bug, but
> let's not jump to conclusions here.

Attached is the gzip output of that latter (TESTS='...').

(For those concerned about pathnames:  our local convention is to have the 
build directory as a subdirectory (e.g. "sparc.sunos5.10") of the source 
directory, hence "../configure [...]".  This allows us to maintain and 
develop and bug-test multiple-architectures from a single source tree.)

You'll also notice that our GNU/ld is old!  Whilst I would be happy to 
upgrade this (and probably should), it would be nice first of all to 
attribute this particular problem to a known cause (libtool, GNU/ld,
Sol10-bug or some interaction).  Then similar queries can be answered 
along the lines of "known problem with X; take upgrade action Y".

Let me know if you want me to test patches or (pseudo-code patches).


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libtool.script.gz
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